Voyage of the Stars

The conclusions drawn by the philosophical experts who study cosmic sociology are not imaginary, but are inferred based on the theoretical progress that humans have made. That is to say, the theoretical progress made by humans is correct, and their inferences are also likely to be correct.

Such conclusions are undoubtedly very important. Although they cannot directly promote the development of science and technology, they point out many feasible paths for the future of mankind. In addition, they let humans know where to go, where not to go, what information can be answered, and what not to do. It is a deeper understanding of the universe and cosmic society, just like when humans first knew the cruelty of the universe. That is the knowledge that interstellar civilizations must master to survive in the universe.

So now this conclusion, first of all, is to let humans understand the power of the fifth-level civilization. They may have mastered the technology of shuttling wormholes, and even created some wormholes. Then there is the interstellar gas station. For the fifth-level civilization, the oil added is negative energy. With this understanding, after humans reach the fifth-level civilization level, they can take fewer detours and directly focus on this aspect of scientific research.

That is, the technology of extracting negative energy from the negative energy field of black holes.

Since it is a gas station, the negative energy extracted from the negative energy field of the black hole must be easier than that produced by the fifth-level civilization itself. As far as human beings know now, the possible way to produce negative energy is the "laser energy state" method, which is definitely not comparable to a celestial body.

And energy must be consumed when it is produced, just like the production of antimatter must consume more energy than the energy contained in the produced antimatter itself. I don't know whether negative energy, a strange energy, also follows this rule. It probably does.

After all, even humans now have no way to solve the problem of "process energy loss", and the total entropy increase is irreversible. This is what the second law of thermodynamics says. Perpetual motion machines do not exist, so the production of negative energy must be the same.

And through calculations, humans have already known that the negative energy required to open a wormhole and stabilize it is actually not much, but it is limited to the kind of wormholes that are almost microscopic in the laboratory that exist in theory. As for wanting to make a wormhole that a spacecraft can pass through, the negative energy required is huge.

Previously, human scientists said that this energy is too large, so space travel through wormholes is simply intangible, because even if a civilization can obtain and create so much negative energy, it will still lose money, and it is better to travel at warp speed directly, which is really unnecessary.

For this reason, people should know that the negative energy that civilization needs to survive through wormhole travel alone is intangible, and now this idea gives this road a feasibility, that is, black hole gas station.

For level 5 civilization, black holes are just like the energy used by lower civilizations to extract negative energy.

Energy! That can be said to be the negative entropy field that exists naturally in the universe!

This means that the technology of level 5 civilization must be centered around negative energy, including the planetary warp engine that humans have long known, which is definitely a product of negative energy technology.

Level 4 civilization uses positive energy to drive the warp engine. Even if the research is done to the extreme and the craftsmanship is done to the extreme, it cannot break through the 38.941 times the speed of light mark. This is already an open secret for humans. The scientific community knows that the Tianqin has the special technology plug-in of the pioneer, which is another matter.

And since there is a special technology that can break this limit, it means that positive energy can still break the limit, but it requires some technology that cannot be understood by the civilization at this level, or it requires an energy level that cannot be mastered by the civilization at this level.

The emergence of negative energy breaks the cognitive limit of the fourth-level civilization, because it is another technology tree, a technology tree under the framework of the universal theory.

It can be imagined that the space travel of those fifth-level civilizations must be based on black holes as coordinates, and sailing from a black hole here to another black hole in the distant starry sky, of course, not from the black hole, but a more advanced warp speed travel.

In this way, it is easy to think that the fifth-level civilization must have mastered a lot of black hole location information, and even the moment it becomes a fifth-level civilization, the most important and necessary thing for a civilization is to detect black holes in the universe on a large scale.

Just like when a low-level civilization looks up at the starry sky, it consciously looks at the stars.

As he thought about it, Yue Yuan couldn't help but be distracted. His thoughts seemed to drift back to the Earth era, but his eyes were full of bright stars.

The vast universe, the stars are bright. When intelligent life first looked up at the starry sky, the curiosity deep in wisdom has already raised the sail of seeking knowledge.

And this first time looking up at the starry sky, intelligent life was completed on their home planet. For humans, this glance is ten thousand years, one glance is ten thousand years.

Now that we have reached the fifth level of civilization, we look up at the starry sky again, but we are not looking at the stars, but the black holes that seem to be the background of the universe.

The spirit of seeking knowledge at the first glance is enough to support the development of civilization to the fourth level of civilization, and the second glance of seeking knowledge is necessary for civilization to step onto a higher level. Without the exploration and knowledge of countless black holes in the starry sky, it will always be trapped at the fourth level of civilization.

And this second glance of black holes, it is unknown how far intelligent life can go. Maybe it can reach the sixth level of civilization, or maybe it can't reach it.

Because according to the knowledge currently mastered by human beings, the sign of level 6 civilization is that they can master the technology tree related to dark matter and dark energy. Although dark matter covers the entire large gravitational zone, the most dense place is undoubtedly the center of the Milky Way, because of gravity!

So does it mean that by then, we have to look up at the starry sky once more, that is, the third time to look up at the starry sky.

The first time we look up at the starry sky, we see the bright stars, the second time we look up at the starry sky, we see the deep black holes, and the third time? Is it looking at the vast nothingness?

Universe, how many secrets do you have?

When Yue Yuan came back to his senses from his absent-minded state, the meeting had ended, but he would definitely read the content of the meeting later, after all, humans might really have to make changes after that.

After searching for natural wormholes for so long, there is still nothing to be found. If this continues, I don’t know when it will end. Yue Yuan was mentally prepared for this, but he didn’t expect it to be so far away, and he didn’t expect that the obstacle to human progress was the endless search.

He believed that humans were capable of mastering the theory of everything, but now humans were like a good cook who could not cook without rice, and could not find a natural wormhole as a research object.

Yue Yuan thought that the fifth-level civilization must have some more convenient, more accurate and wider-range black hole and wormhole detection technology, because the current human cosmological theory shows that there are a lot of black holes in the universe. They are definitely not as many as stars, but they are definitely not as few as humans have observed so far.

The same is true for natural wormholes.

But humans have traveled thousands of light years and still haven't found any.